Original Typed Letter Signed
by Watson, James D.
Cold Spring Harbor, New York: n.p., 1970. Fine.. Original signed typescript letter from the Nobel Prize winner to teen autograph-hunter Harris Lentz III, who would later author the multi-volume CELEBRITY OBITUARIES book series. Watson's response to Lentz's autograph request was written eight years after his receipt (with Francis Crick) of the 1962 Nobel Prize for their pioneering work on the structure of DNA, and just two years after the publication of THE DOUBLE HELIX and his appointment as... Read More
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DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS FOR CHILDREN
by Watts, Isaac; Gaskin, Mrs. Arthur [Georgina Gaskin]
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1896. Near fine.. Lovely Arts and Crafts edition of Watts' stern and pious children's verses, illustrated by Gaskin's sunlit Greenaway-esque visions of figures untroubled by guilt, grief, and sin. 7.75'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth with pictorial paste-on. 91, [1] pages. Illustrated with 14 color plates by Gaskin. Minor wear to boards; spine gently sunned.
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DIVINE SONGS ATTEMPTED IN EASY LANGUAGE FOR THE USE OF CHILDREN
by Watts, Isaac
Boston: J. & T. Fleet, 1802. Good.. Lovely chapbook edition of a selection of Isaac Watts's hymns, bound in an attractive vernacular wallpaper wrapper. Just because this edition of Watts's hymns adapted for a young audience was made to be inexpensive didn't mean it had to be unattractive. At least, that's what an early owner seemed to be thinking when they added a wrapper of blue and green wallpaper, with a floral design skillfully centered on the front... Read More
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HARRY WAUGH'S WINE DIARY: Volume Nine: 1978-1981
by WAUGH, Harry; Christie's
(London): Christie's Wine Publications, 1981. First Edition. Very good.. Informative guide to the wines encountered by this eminent wine consultant during the years 1978 to 1981. Wraps. Small 4to. Pictorial wraps. A very good copy. Mild scuffs to front and rear covers. Interior overall bright and clean with one mild touch of soil on final blank leaf. Good and sound. 204pp.
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BONNY BAIRNS
by Waugh, Ida; Blanchard, Amy Ella
New York: Worthington Co, 1888. Very good plus.. First edition of this collection of rhymes illustrated with darling chromolithographs of Victorian children by Ida Waugh. BONNY BAIRNS lives up to its name: its pages are full of lovely Victorian children frolicking in gardens, playing with toys, and being comforted by their elegant mothers. Ida Waugh paints an idillic picture of upper-middle-class 19th-century childhood in her illustrations, similar to her contemporary Maud Humphrey. An attractive production. 10.25'' x 8''.... Read More
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IDA WAUGH'S ALPHABET BOOK
by Waugh, Ida; Blanchard, Amy
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1888. Very good plus.. First edition of this scarce illustrated alphabet book, a verse narrative by lifelong artistic collaborators and co-habitating companions Waugh and Blanchard, a beautiful copy. 10.5'' x 9''. Original decorative red and gilt-stamped boards in Art Nouveau style, carefully rebacked with green cloth spine. Illustrated by Waugh throughout. Unpaginated. Hinges reinforced. Light edgewear, faint soil and some faint spots of dampstaining to boards. Minor wear to fore-edge of text block. ... Read More
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DE RERUM NATURA, ETC.
by W.B.A.
n.p.: n.p., 1935. Very good.. Mock-epic manuscript in six cantos, offering meticulously footnoted anonymous rhyming invective against the New Deal, the Nietszschian Superman, and the unappreciative American publishing industry. This never-published satire presents an array of politico-philosophic opinions and prejudices, refined to a high degree of erudition and incomprehensibility, unified by the author's displeasure with Franklin D. Roosevelt and "Teutonism" in all its forms. Refused by two cowardly American periodicals in previous drafts, the author then turned his... Read More
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AND WE ARE NOT SAVED
by Wdowinski, David
New York: Philosophical Library, 1963. First Edition. Very good plus in a very good minus jacket.. Signed first edition of this important account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from one of its few leaders to survive. Wdowinski was a founder of Betar and a leader of the Irgun Zva'i Leumi during the Ghetto revolt, an experience recounted here along with the author's experience both in pre-war Poland as a politician/activist (he was an active member of the Warsaw... Read More
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THE CURIOUS SOFA
by WEARY, Ogdred [Edward Gorey]
New York: Ivan Obolensky, 1961. First Edition. Very good.. First printing of this Edward Gorey work, published under the anagrammatic pseudonym Ogdred Weary. Unpaginated. With 30, mildly pornographic, illustrated leaves and accompanying text. [Toledano A7a.]. Wraps. 12mo. Illustrated wraps. Very good. Moderated handling wear, small crease to lower right corner, front. Previous owner's name to title page. Overall sound, contents clean.
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CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAY-BOOK
by Weatherly, F. E.; Greenaway, Kate
London: W. Mack, 1880. Very good.. First edition of this book for noting the birthdates of acquaintances, with verse and illustrations by Kate Greenaway and others. Kate Greenaway achieved great success in 1878 with her first solo publication UNDER THE WINDOW, and quickly became a household name. This achievement came after years of study at the National Art Training School and the Heatherley School of Fine Art, where she rubbed shoulders with the likes of Elizabeth Thompson (later... Read More
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THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE
by Weatherly, F.E.; Berkeley, Edith
London / New York: Hildesheimer & Faulkner / Geo. C. Whitney, 1891. Very good plus.. Striking chromolithographed shape book of the classic nursery rhyme with cover image of a realistic late Victorian shoe. 6.25'' x 8.25'' (approx.). Original thread-bound stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated by Berkeley with lovely chromolithographs. [14] pages. A couple creases and nicks to wrappers. Light foxing to leaves. Marvelously intact.
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DESERT NOIR
by Webb, Betty
Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2001. Near fine.. Inscribed first trade paperback edition of this Southwestern mystery, in which PI Lena Jones's quest to uncover her forgotten past is brought to a halt when her friend is killed in her Scottsdale art gallery. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original color pictorial wrappers. 252 pages. Inscribed by Webb to title page "To Barbara!" Wrapper with a hint of edgewear. Half-title with two tiny spots of soil. Tight.
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BRANDED YOUTH AND OTHER STORIES
by Weber, Bruce
Boston and New York: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1997. First printing. Near fine.. Signed first edition from the noted photographer - inscribed to the mother of musician Jeff Buckley, who Weber featured in this book. Buckley, best known for his indelible cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (as well as his majestic debut album GRACE), tragically drowned the same year BRANDED YOUTH was released. Weber photographed the singer a number of times throughout the early to... Read More
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR BEANY
by Weber, Lenora Mattingly
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957. First edition. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of the sixth book in the Beany Malone series, detailing the social fallout after Beany's 17th birthday party - a remarkably sharp copy. The Beany Malone series ran through 14 books, and Beany was Lenora Mattingly Weber's most well-known character. The series experienced a resurgence in popularity when it was republished in 1999. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original green cloth... Read More
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THE ART OF BABAR
by Weber, Nicholas Fox; de Brunhoff, Jean; de Brunhoff, Laurent
New York: Henry N. Abrams, 1989. First printing. Near fine.. First edition of this immense and lavishly illustrated reference work on the illustrations and other artistic output of the two generations of de Brunhoffs. 12'' x 8.75''. Original yellow pictorial cloth stamped in red. In original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket. Index at rear. 192 pages. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Series of small dings to rear panel/board. Else clean.
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KIDDIE-KAR BOOK
by Weber, Sarah S. Stilwell; Walsh, Richard J.
Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1920. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First edition of this charming Art Nouveau-tinged collection of rhymes and illustrations about the delights of riding a tricycle, an unusual Sarah S. Sitwell Weber title. Sarah S. Stilwell Weber studied under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute, and was one of the core members of the Brandywine School and the Plastic Club. Her vibrant figures and Art Nouveau-inspired compositions made her... Read More
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KIDDIE-KAR BOOK
by Weber, Sarah S. Stilwell; Walsh, Richard J.
Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1920. Near fine.. First edition of this charming collection of rhymes and illustrations about the delights of riding a tricycle, an unusual Sarah S. Sitwell Weber title. Sarah S. Stilwell Weber studied under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute, and was one of the core members of the Brandywine School and the Plastic Club. Her vibrant figures and Art Nouveau-inspired compositions made her a popular periodical illustrator, and she created covers... Read More
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MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY PRINTS
by [Wehr, Julian]
New York: Penn Prints, 1940. Fine in very good portfolio.. First printing of this portfolio of colorful nursery rhyme illustrations, from Mary Had a Little Lamb to Jack and Jill and more. 14'' x 11.5''. Original color pictorial portfolio. Illustrated in color. [10] loose leaves, printed one side only. Portfolio with some edgewear and toning. Prints sharp and bright.
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WIZARD OF OZ
by Wehr, Julian; Baum, L. Frank
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1944. Very good.. First printing of the Wehr moveable edition, with 6 fine moveable plates. 8.5'' x 6.5''. Original spiral-bound orange paper boards. Blue pastedowns. Illustrated by Wehr throughout in color in addition to 6 moveable plates. Repairs to spine and one moveable element. Bright.
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DIARIES & DREAMS: Arbeiten auf Papier
by Weiermair, Peter
Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim: Ursula Blickle Stiftung, 2004. Near fine.. First edition of this companion book to a German contemporary art exhibition highlighting the artistic medium of drawing, including works by Louise Bourgeois, Conrad Botes, Marlene Dumas, Marcel Dzama, and more. 11.75'' x 9.5''. Original beige typographic paper boards. No jacket, as issued. Blue endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and in color. Text in German. 256 pages. Small sticker to rear board. Faint toning to spine and a bit to boards;... Read More
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THE GREAT GLASS SEA
by Weil, Josh
New York: Grove Press, 2014. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed, slipcased first edition of Weil's debut novel, a fantasy set in an alternate near-future Russia, issued for the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna... Read More
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THE HAPPY ABC
by Weil, Lisl
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1949. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Charming mid-century alphabet from the company that would go on to publish THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR. 6.5'' x 7.5''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white and color. [24] pages. Jacket with light edgewear and a touch of chipping. Book bright and clean.
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AT THE BARRIERS: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn
by Weiner, Joshua; [Gunn, Thom]
Chicago / London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. First printing. Near fine.. First edition of this academic book on the work of "maverick gay icon of poetry Thom Gunn" - with warm inscription from editor Joshua Weiner to poet Stanley Plumly. 9'' x 6''. Original white photographic wrappers. xiv, 330 pages. Inscribed by Weiner to title page: "For Stan, / My debt was deep, my pleasure in handing you this book deeper yet. With admiration, affection and thanks.... Read More
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Crucible Furniture Design Archive
by [Crucible Corporation]; [David Weinstock]
[New York]: n.p., 1970. Very good plus.. Archive of the Crucible Furniture Corporation's product photographs, internal documents, and marketing materials: a treasury of American furniture design. Weinstock's Crucible Corporation supplied seating to many iconic locations, including the 5th Avenue Revlon Salon, the Kennedy Airport, and San Francisco's Fairmount Hotel, among numerous other public buildings. As a supplier to architectural, institutional, and commercial interior designers for over 50 years, Crucible was a significant contributor to the 'look' of the... Read More
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CITY COUNTRY ABC
by Weisgard, Leonard; Gipson, Morrell
New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc, 1946. First edition. Very good plus.. First printing of this charming alphabet that compares and contrasts the lives of a city boy and a country boy, written during America's postwar urbanization. 11'' x 7.25''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Illustrated in color. [48] pages. Binding with light edgewear, a bit of dampstaining to spine. One leaf with loss to top edge near gutter affecting the illustration, else clean and bright. ... Read More
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